Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s greatest, durable legacy is to show that India is best governed with a large heart. Just how...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Until holy cows come home: You call this maximum governance?
If Modi wishes to rise as a tall reformer PM, he must call the RSS/VHP bluff now. When Devi Lal...
Why didn’t you want to resign, Dr Singh?
Let’s ask why our former PM let Congress undermine his authority and that of his office. In his first conversation...
The Real Crisis In Our Newsrooms
There cannot be better evidence of the growing self-importance of the media that in a week which saw a significant...
A storyline for economic right
To the question he is often asked, whether or not the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is left-wing in its economics,...
Modi’s next test: The “other” minority issue
Much as you detest some old British politicians and their ghisa-pita old cliches, you can’t help falling back on them....
Waking up to a new ‘usual’
A conversation, factual or embellished, with a taxi driver has been the oldest ploy in the journalist’s book. Sometimes it...
Changing Course With Urban Discourse
Just as the history of mankind so far has been demarcated between B.C. and A.D., you can safely predict that...
East to west, money defines politics in India’s double-income, no ideology city of ‘freedom fighters’
Delhi is driven by greed, ambition and arrogant,freebooting cynicism as no other city in the country. AAP has figured out...
Modi is what he is, and he is wearing it on his sleeve.
How would R.K. Laxman have commented in a cartoon on the excitement over Narendra Modi’s exclusive, pin-striped suit on the...